skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've set something like this up with Google Domains + Gmail for free (well, the yearly cost of the domain, but yeah)

I was able to set up alias emails in my gmail & have all emails from a particular domain forward to my domain as well.

Then went with a password manager & changed all my email addresses to my own domain with specific relays (amazon@ netflix@ etc etc)

Works really well for ~12/year!
I'm curious to check it out. I find the balance of figuring out how long to make texts -- how much supplemental information that texts have to be an interesting problem to solve. Most educational materials have to much for me, in an attempt to appeal to a wider audience, and you can't really learn from a cheat sheet or a cram book. Not always because you can't understand the material but also because reading a list of facts is as dull as paste.
You don't have to worry about torque on the ground. In the air near stall speed more torque is not necessarily your friend.
Yea, Florida is not "doing fine" by any stretch of the imagination. It's just that they don't want to report numbers that show them not doing fine, as the entire state is funded by tourism.

They seem to be doing a pretty good job with vaccination though, so there's that!
If you do an analysis of all factors the Tesla is not so bad on cost. Sure you can get way cheaper cars in terms of up front price. But the price comparison is more fair if you factor in the safety and the savings on gas and maintenance. Not to mention resale value and helping do a small part for the future.
It makes so much sense, it's just crazy to see how little support there is for the idea.

This and other things are starting to convince me that the average person is actually incapable of making smart policy decisions, and that if we used technology to implement a direct democracy, it would likely be worse than what we have now. I used to think it was a great idea, but I've lost some faith in humanity lately looking at people reacted to the pandemic.
Don't look up coyote Peterson on YouTube
You're right, it's not 100% anonymous. But my name's not in the domain, and I use WhoisGuard with my registrar. It's reasonably effective, cheap, and a low effort way to deflect the bots and identify suspicious activity.
Yes, but OpenOffice still has the brand and mindshare, especially among less tech-savvy folk. Just the other day I was doing some work cleaning up a friend's computer, only to discover they had OpenOffice installed.

The right thing for Apache to do is shut down OpenOffice and point at LibreOffice instead. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-let...
I just went and built out a search feature on the front page using Algolia. It's not pretty, but it works.
>Only one of the planes listed in harbour air's fleet is a piston

And that one is the one they're retrofitting with an electric motor
The Hedgehog Concept
> The vast majority of costs associated with aviation are in maintenance, with the majority of those costs coming from engine overhauls.

This is it right here; the CEO of Harbor Air is on record as saying that this is exactly where they expect the biggest costs savings (millions of dollars per year based on their flight numbers) to come from:

——-

There would be savings on fuel costs, of course, carbon taxes, and the carbon offsets that Harbour Air buys. But the real savings would be in maintenance. With electric motors, there's next to no maintenance required, whereas with turboprop engines have significant maintenance and rebuild requirements.

"You have a motor with a notional life of 10,000 hours – and that's probably being pessimistic – because it's so simple," McDougall said. "We're looking at, in rough numbers, the same 10,000 hours in a conventional turbine will cost a couple million bucks in maintenance, rebuilds and all the rest of it, whereas 10,000 hours in an electric motor should cost us virtually nothing."

——-

https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/bc-news/harbour-air-conduc...
Has the Pandemic Transformed the Concept of a Workplace Office Forever?
It is frustrating how opaque bluetooth is. A lot of regular folks would have no idea that getting a newer Mac would improve their airpods microphone quality.

For what it's worth I have found the NC 700's to have a much better microphone quality when in self voice mode. It's explained here: https://www.gearpatrol.com/tech/audio/a594565/bose-noise-can...
If you have the access to the machines to hack a number of them you likely already have the access to dump and analyze the source code, the physical access required is basically the same in both cases and getting the code initially is easier because you only need one machine (/maybe/ two to see if there's any interesting differences) where the final hack would require more. Also just because the code isn't released doesn't mean it's secure that same bad actor can theoretically hack the same code out of the writing company to start with.

It's a debate we've had with secure messengers the benefit of having that many eyes on a piece of software outweighs the minor risk of a secret zero day.
That's a recurring thing in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Outside of the protagonist, most people need a costly antirejection drug for the augmentations that they're societally pressured to have. Because they're otherwise uncompetitive in their work.
That's a totally fair and accurate assessment.
Mkdocs has a plugin to generate apidocs as well

https://github.com/tomchristie/mkautodoc
Do people not already get their primary inboxes flooded with spam anyway? I've found my email provider's spam filtering pretty good anyway, it hasn't been an issue.
Hopefully this isn't too much of derailing the conversation:

This was something that surprised me about China when I visited, although maybe it shouldn't have.

The level of community and how close people are seemed unreal, coming from the US.

Maybe part of it is the "forced" community - city/urban blocks gated off with single entrance/exit ways, in some cases. I'm not sure.

But the dancing every night in the street in big cities, the elderly gathering to play Mahjongg in dedicated buildings, and other things, really opened my eyes about how far apart we are.
According to the author of the license[0], it is not open source.

[0]: https://polyformproject.org/what-is-polyform/
People like nice clean looking kitchens. A kitchen with a display flashing crap does not fit into that.

I'm sure some percentage of fridges will have displays flashing shitty adverts all day long, but there will be a large number of fridges that are just decent looking boxes with stainless, black, or white doors.

With TVs I'm afraid we're screwed though. Adding a brain and wifi to a TV is super cheap now and manufacturers have already figured out how to monetize having a smart TV in your house even without advertising.
These blocks of 256 bytes most probably are stored in wear-leveling database of some sort hidden inside NVME. These databases are often LSM-tree-based. So, writing larger blocks still has benefits, especially when you use compression.

If you think you only need 256 byte pages, average price for 10G hard disk drive is ~$300 [1] and average price for 2G SSD drive is also ~$300 [2].

[1] https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/internal-hard-drive/?__cf_ch...

[2] https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/internal-hard-drive/?__cf_ch...

Five times price/Gb difference. If you need large storage, you need hard disks.

B-trees are good with hard disks, is PGM index good with them too?
For me favicons are a huge UX requirement, I can barely use my browser tabs without favicons.
There are so many. Some might even wish there was some of kind of IQ-test and permanent branding in social media. In the old-time Usenet everybody was associated with an academic institution, which already implies some mental capabilities perse.
> Programming today is fundamentally designed to function rather than be correct...

As long as such code is coupled with reasonably complete tests for the expected behavior (think of fuzzing as one of such tests), it's a quite valid and "safe" approach.

Of course, it's possible to write "unsafe" code, yet pass most of business-related tests. But this is equally possible with any programming language.

Unsafe assumptions will lead to unsafe implementation.
It's the closest thing to black magic mankind has achieved.
They’ve definitely zeroed in on it. I think it is understandable, though, from their position—privacy seems most acutely at-risk, at least stateside, and the vast majority of people affected aren’t among those well-informed.
The reason we have shrunk the CPU is because the transistors etc that used to take 100mm can now be held in 10mm.

Theres always this trade off between complexity and speed. Making the components smaller means you can have both!
In other comments people pointed out that New Zealand followed this more stringent strategy.

Right now, they're all outside enjoying summer with almost normal freedoms, while we're still stuck indoors. I must admit I'm jealous!

I don't think the Kiwis are currently preparing to shoot their way out of anything right at the moment. Probably because they're pretty much free to do whatever they want.

I will grant that New Zealand had an easier time of it as an island nation with a low population density, but it does give you pause for thought. Maybe we all could do better next time when the next pandemic rolls around.

Theory vs Practice. Who's more free right now?
> The whole area around Sunnyvale is littered with toxic waste dumps from semiconductor manufacturing.

Makes me wonder how this is dealt with in Taiwan.
Well damn, he really did
This has been required reading for all the pentesters at my org for the past 20 years.
As a young fitness company i'll take the comparison to Peloton as a compliment. I see what you mean and to your point branding and differentiating will become a higher priority when we can afford to do so.
I remember setting my status as 'Free for chat' and having people send me a hello whom I actually became online-friends with. It was a fun little feature, back when bots and weaponized trolling wasn't really a thing yet.
How is this any different than drunk driving? Risk-taking activities that put both the risk-taker and others in mortal danger.

States seem to be able to punish that kind of risk taking without complaints about "joy-destroying authoritarian overlords".
In-House Software
Sleeping Pillow Free 3D Model
Tired of Waiting on the City, Shelters Solved a Wi-Fi Problem Themselves
I have never head of Britain preventing people from leaving the country, except for criminals serving their sentence, and (presumably) people awaiting trial.

Where does the idea that people are prevented from leaving the country for private healthcare originate? (It would be rare, as there's a good private healthcare system in Britain anyway. The opposite is much more common: the UK is a common choice for private healthcare for rich people in the Middle East.)
What Happens When You Click 'Agree'?
> and would've been paralyzed without the ability to use some sort of anatomized data to target people with ads.

anatomized? Is that a typo for anonymized? Or does this mean something?
This is what I've found incredibly healthy and liberating about less developed countries. Nobody believes politicians or assumes that government has their best interests in mind. That level of trust appears as a toxic mythology from my perspective.

Instead they look for their own solutions.
At best someone accidentally clicks on one of the little adverts and you earn $0.01. On a busy site, accidental clicks alone have to earn a few dollars a day.
I'm very attentive to wording but I think you're reading too much into this one.

In programming and in business you talking about "finding" a solution to a problem all the time. In this case, the problem is how to improve privacy without advertising revenue dropping off a cliff. And it's not like the solution is staring you in the face -- it takes iteration and testing for it to be "found".

So I don't think Google is being disingenuous here. Nothing is being implied as a somehow natural phenomenon. Business in general is about "finding" satisfactory solutions to problems day in and day out. "Find" and "develop" are essentially synonymous and interchangeable here.
"Of course, you can always pay a recovery company to get your identity back. But, that's expensive--more than most people have. The company will do it on credit (if they like your prospects), but then they have title to your identity until you pay them back, which, for many, is a day that never comes. The charges, service fees, garnishments, and interest on the above just add up and up."
> I think they could’ve messaged better around that

It wasn't bad messaging, it was no messaging. That's why they got slapped with a fine. People saw their phones were slowing down, assumed the phones were just old and bought new ones. If they knew they just needed a battery change, many wouldn't have bought a new phone. Don't tell me that wasn't deliberate.
Yes, they did exist. I stopped using catchall because of them. It's not as common these days, looking at my postfix log. Though some large spammers were shut down a few years ago. I saw a sharp 60-70% drop in spam volume when that happened. So maybe someone who was doing this dictionary search gave up or was shutdown too in recent past.
Why don't you use FreeRDP, X2Go or rdesktop - all open source???
Body on fast food: Real-time data with Basis
The gig economy exploits the efficiencies of a trusting society masterfully. It would have been unthinkable 20 years ago that we'd let total strangers drive us home from bars and use our houses like hotels. But it turns out that with only a little oversight, we can trust our fellow citizens just as well as an employee of a professional company.

Systems of maintaining trust are very important, but having a trustworthy culture and populace is just as important. In the words of William Easterly, these systems can either be virtuous cycles or vicious cycles. Either trust flourishes or mistrust flourishes and going from one to the other is challenging because of its game-theoretical properties.
The marginal cost of manufacturing a chip is roughly proportional to area. So with smaller transistors you can fit more of them into a given area.
> Scientists say it is much worse than the flu. For the vast majority who actually experience the disease, it is not much worse than the flu. Thus, people start to mistrust the science ...

You're probably right: it's hard to understand the difference between statistical evidence and anecdotes. On the other hand, a lot of other people who don't experience COVID still seem to be able to separate their own lack of statistical knowledge from the ability to trust scientists. I think these mask deniers are mistrusting scientists for some other reason.
Spark Optimization
10 things you can do to optimize your spark Jobs?
Haha - yes. Yes it does.
I try to alternate fiction and non-fiction when I can. Having recently finished Capital Vol 1, I've started Q by Luther Blissett this week. Q seems to be well regarded, but I'm going in blind. After Q I'll likely go back to Capital Vol 2 which I understand to be on the drier side.

During iso I've set aside Wednesday nights as reading nights. The schedule gives me something to look forward too, but it doesn't preclude reading during the weekends if I'm feeling into it.
Fixing the Salton Sea isn't just about real estate values. It's going to be a huge health hazard if things keep going in their current direction.

> Imperial County already has the highest rate of asthma-related emergency room visits for children in California, and the problem is expected to get worse as tens of thousands of acres of lakebed are left high and dry around the lake over the next decade.

[1] https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2017/11/06/...
Axios really needs to bring on some literate technical advisory.

"Cookies are considered third-party data, or user data that's collected indirectly from users via browsers or websites."

This statement seriously requires qualification. This is exactly what contributes to unreasonable regulation and confused users.
The Trouble with Reference Counting
It's okay. Check out Parallel Worlds.
Because they are working blind.

They are trying to find something that they don't necessarily know exists. They also don't know what tripwires exist and after trawling around for so long, they might even have assumed that SE didn't have any monitoring systems.
I thought about buying an OpenBCI kit to try something like this, but I think there's just not enough sensor resolution to get anything meaningful in the way you're suggesting. The strongest signals by far come from muscle movement, too, so that tends to be the basis of interfaces.

(FWIW: absolutely not an expert)
Even so, housing costs in Ft. Worth are still much cheaper than in Austin, and the difference is widening. In the last 30 years housing in Austin has gone from 30% cheaper than Ft. Worth to 30% more expensive. It's easy to see why: Ft. Worth enjoys liberal-marketarian zoning policies and Austin suffers increasingly from left-NIMBY potectionism, meanwhile population pressure is actually higher in Austin due to job growth. That is why the Austin situation seems to me to be quite similar to the SF Bay Area.

Not discounting that Ft. Worth local policies may do a better job of hiding homelessness, only I don't think it is the root cause.
I find that weird/sad that you could sum up EVERYTHING you know in few GitHub pages. What about historic facts that you know or just place you visited? I not really critic of what is claim to know, but I think I just disagree with his interpretation of what knowledge is. Knowing how to read time his a knowledge why is it not part of the gitbook...?
Viruses can't really "adapt" to "not being spread". It's not quite zero, I suppose we could hypothesize some superior ability to survive on a surface for some period of time or something, but there's not much they can do about it.

Bacteria would have more options, since they're so much more complex. Viruses just don't have much they can do.
GameStop short-sellers lost $1.6B in one day as Reddit rebelled against them
I will redesign your website for free in less than 3 hours (challenge)
I have some free time and would like some challenge related to web development. Post a website on the comments and I will try to come back with a better layout in less than 3 hours!
The importance of social trust has had a major impact on my belief in the importance of government-guaranteed tax-funded universal healthcare. Before about 2015, I thought it was nice, but not a pressing crisis, but around then, I started to notice things like signs saying "why does my insulin cost more than methadone?" and "why is medical marijuana cheaper than my heart disease medication?". These situations might have simple economic explanations in terms of supply-side dynamics, but they are morally infuriating to the same chunk of the electorate who self-identify as conservative capitalists. Not long after, Martin Shkreli appeared.

There seems to be a powerful, possibly instinctive, connection between A: being able to turn to someone for help when you're in need and B: considering that someone to be trustworthy. In 2020, we saw this writ large, when the United States became the global epicenter of conspiracy theories about SARS-CoV-2. The general population's trust in the medical system and the government is a huge unaccounted-for externality that can have serious effects on our economic and political stability.

Furthermore, one of the most lamented, supposedly idiosyncratic, problems with the US medical system is the sheer amount of paperwork required to do almost anything. It seems like an excellent example of this:

>We need to trust the people around us in order to live happy, productive lives. If we don’t trust them, we end up having to find costly ways to formalize our relationships.

(Opponents of guaranteed universal healthcare in the United States will generally agree that we do not have a "free" market in healthcare, but it is usually harder to convince them it will never be politically possible in light of the above.)
I read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle based on suggestions

I have that on my list to read "sometime soon." So far I've really enjoyed all the Murakami I've read - After Dark, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and A Wild Sheep Chase. Definitely planning to read the rest of his works eventually.
"We might fancy some children playing on the flat grassy top of some tall island in the sea. So long as there was a wall round the cliff’s edge they could fling themselves into every frantic game and make the place the noisiest of nurseries. But the walls were broken down, leaving the naked peril of the precipice. They did not fall over; but when their friends returned to them they were all huddled in terror in the centre of the island; and their song had ceased."

-- G.K. Chesterton
That looks really useful! Both of these are closed source I guess?
While we are discussing this, just wish HN readers to shed more light on a practice which I diligently follow.

Whenever I visit any website, courtesy the GDPR laws, we are asked to request the terms and cookies. I make it a point to disable all cookies (barring the strictly necessary ones), partners and also the "Legitimate Interest" section, where I click "Object all", and then click "Save and exit".

However, on many websites I don't see any option to "reject" or "object" to cookies, partners, vendors and especially legitimate interest. Particularly concerned about Legitimate Interest since the number of vendors there is humongous.A good example of a site where we cannot choose would be the BBC[1]. We get an option only to read their terms and conditions but no option to reject and object.

1) Can anyone please guide how to reject to cookies on such sites where they don't have a reject option present?

Also, in my iOS, in Safari settings, I have chosen "Block all cookies" to yes.

2) How far will blocking all cookies safeguard me from unscrupulous cookies? If my blocking all cookies is enabled in safari settings and suppose I visit some malicious site and accept their cookies, would the owners of malicious site be able to do anything sinister or adversarial to my privacy and integrity? Will the be able to breach my security?

Ref. →
[1]https://www.bbc.co.uk/
Do you own Tesla solar panels? I've heard mixed reports about them. I live in Northern California where there is a big solar presence but most of the solar people I've spoken to (installers and owners) say Tesla is too expensive and not particularly great.

I'll be doing solar panels on our roof when the battery storage tech becomes viable and PG&E start being sensible about individual electricity production.
I feel like how to tap this energy from these exercises as electricity & store them in batteries.
Great, looking forward to it! Something like a food recommendation tool would also be nice. "Since you ordered A from B and C from D you probably also like meal E from restaurant F".
I would do something like that but with a simple rule/cipher that can be computed mentally and is not completely obvious at first look. Like a shift cipher of the first two characters of the name:

wolmart.yq@example.com

w+2 = y and o+2 = q
Improving how we deploy GitHub
There is some talk that it also _is_ deadly.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/22/new-uk-covid-v...